I just got a direct mail piece as part of AT&T post-iPhone activation follow up sales efforts listing out international data roaming plans.
In a nutshell:
20MB for $24.99/month
50MB for $54.99/month
100MB for $119.99/month
200MB for $199.99/month
+ an overage of $0.005 per KB
Available in 65 countries It’s not really great as far as usage goes but it’s definitely something considering how expensive roaming without a plan is. When I was last in Europe I was offered a sweet $19.95 per MB deal. Yes, you read that right, PER MEGABYTE. Imagine loading one webpage heavy on javascript/css and you’re into the 500-750KB range or about $10-15. Yay. That’s awesome. Now snap a picture and up it to Flickr or TwitPic and that’s probably another $10. So, getting the 50 plan and turning off automatic email fetch/push and limiting web browsing might keep you in the range, and company folks shouldn’t even bat an eye at the 100MB/200MB plans All of that aside, as an experiment, I reset my usage data on August 4th and in the subsequent 14 days, I uploaded 10.5MB and downloaded 130MB, and I already keep email to manual syncing. Yikes. As an aside, for much better usage tracking check out Cell Tracker in the AppStore, it’s free and provides way more info that simply resetting usage to 0.
Cell Tracker : http://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewSoftware?id=311637771&mt=8
20MB for $24.99/month
50MB for $54.99/month
100MB for $119.99/month
200MB for $199.99/month
+ an overage of $0.005 per KB
Available in 65 countries It’s not really great as far as usage goes but it’s definitely something considering how expensive roaming without a plan is. When I was last in Europe I was offered a sweet $19.95 per MB deal. Yes, you read that right, PER MEGABYTE. Imagine loading one webpage heavy on javascript/css and you’re into the 500-750KB range or about $10-15. Yay. That’s awesome. Now snap a picture and up it to Flickr or TwitPic and that’s probably another $10. So, getting the 50 plan and turning off automatic email fetch/push and limiting web browsing might keep you in the range, and company folks shouldn’t even bat an eye at the 100MB/200MB plans All of that aside, as an experiment, I reset my usage data on August 4th and in the subsequent 14 days, I uploaded 10.5MB and downloaded 130MB, and I already keep email to manual syncing. Yikes. As an aside, for much better usage tracking check out Cell Tracker in the AppStore, it’s free and provides way more info that simply resetting usage to 0.
Cell Tracker : http://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewSoftware?id=311637771&mt=8
